Last week in the season-opening win over the Giants, Claiborne dislocated his left shoulder. He played Sunday with a harness that helped keep his shoulder in place but he could play the rest of the season trying to manage the injury.

Against the Chiefs, Claiborne didn’t start and the Cowboys primarily used him when they went to their nickel package (five defensive backs on the field). Nickel cornerback Orlando Scandrick started on the outside in place of Claiborne.

Late in the third quarter, Claiborne went down to the field in pain after he lowered his left shoulder to try to stop Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles on a short pass to the left side. Charles used his right shoulder to blast Claiborne, who missed the tackle.

“I should have just sucked it up and went in and made the tackle,” Claiborne said. “I knew it was going to bother me.”

Claiborne, who wasn’t credited with a tackle in the game, said his shoulder injury limits his range of motion and “just being comfortable.”

“It wasn’t so much actual pain, just every time you hit it you got some pain here and there,” Claiborne added, “but I was expecting that. That was something in the first week some of the doctors told me that I was going to be going through.”

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